From APENFT to AINFT: Reshaping the Digital Ecosystem with AI and Entering a New Era of Intelligence

Since its inception in 2021, APENFT has consistently remained at the forefront of the NFT movement, tokenizing masterpieces from iconic artists like Picasso, Andy Warhol, and Beeple onto the blockchain. With over 2 million NFT assets, tens of millions of dollars in trading volume, and a core user base of 500,000, APENFT has established the largest NFT marketplace in the TRON ecosystem. Through innovations such as NFTPump, it continues to push the boundaries of digital assets.

Yet, amid rapidly evolving technology, a revolution far deeper and broader than simple digitization of assets is underway. AI Agent technology, powered by Large Language Models (LLMs), is redefining the foundational principles of value creation and collaboration. On October 9 (UTC), the APENFT founding team—always at the cutting edge—announced a major upgrade to AINFT.

The heart of AINFT’s upgrade lies in building an AI Agent-powered intelligent digital ecosystem. This marks APENFT’s shift from a single digital asset trading and issuance platform to a comprehensive smart digital ecosystem—integrating an AI Agent framework, AI Agent deployment platform, financial agent trading system, and decentralized AI model platform.

Within this new ecosystem, every AI Agent becomes an economically autonomous digital entity, able to participate in complex activities like DeFi strategy execution, asset management, and smart contract programming in a secure blockchain environment. This strategic pivot reflects AINFT’s ability to anticipate tech trends and its ambition to build the foundation for the next-generation internet. It marks the beginning of a new era of intelligent digital ecosystems driven by AI, governed by communities, and interconnected by value.

Breaking Barriers and Elevating Dimensions: AINFT’s Strategic Transformation and Intelligent Ecosystem Vision

The industry stands at a pivotal moment: the internet’s mission has evolved from basic information connectivity to the deep integration of value and intelligence. The convergence of artificial intelligence and blockchain—two transformative technologies—is catalyzing the emergence of next-generation digital infrastructure, promising enhanced efficiency, transparency, and a complete reimagining of digital rights and economic models.

AINFT emerges in this context, designed to lay the foundation for the next-generation internet and build a smarter, fairer, and more autonomous digital world. The team’s unified vision is that AINFT is far more than “AI + Web3”—it is a next-generation digital ecosystem with native intelligence and economic agency.

Sharp insights and reflection on the digital ecosystem’s current state inform this upgrade’s vision. The industry widely recognizes that centralized platforms controlling data and value steadily undermines users’ control over their digital identities and content. Meanwhile, while AI technology has made significant leaps, its progress relies heavily on high-quality training data, and the industry currently faces issues of data silos, opaque data sources, and questionable reliability. Blockchain’s potential is also constrained by the uncompleted “last mile” of intelligence integration.

These roadblocks not only limit public access to advanced technologies but also slow the digital ecosystem’s evolution toward greater openness and efficiency. Overcoming these barriers is the AINFT team’s top priority.

AINFT’s grand vision is to build a next-generation internet foundation by creating a smart, trustworthy, and self-sustaining digital ecosystem—one that supports diverse AI Agents, protects digital autonomy, and fosters economic independence. Constructed atop TRON’s robust infrastructure and powered by deep integration of AI and blockchain, AINFT represents not just a blend of two technologies, but a true paradigm shift.

AINFT’s core philosophy is to return control to users. Through deep AI-Web3 integration, AINFT pursues two key goals: first, leveraging blockchain to guarantee user participation and control over their data and governance; second, aggregating a wide array of AI Agents to establish AINFT as a Web3-native AI gateway, enabling users to unlock creativity and share ecosystem value through intelligent applications.

AINFT: A New Era for Self-Evolving Intelligent Digital Ecosystems

With its upgrade, AINFT has moved beyond being merely an NFT issuance platform, evolving into an AI-driven, self-evolving intelligent digital ecosystem. By deeply integrating artificial intelligence and blockchain, it provides an open platform where every participant can benefit from intelligent value creation.

In this ecosystem, AI Agents become economically autonomous digital entities who participate in DeFi strategy execution, asset management, and smart contract programming. By integrating external multimodal models like Sora, the AINFT ecosystem gains robust capabilities for contextual analysis, content creation, data processing, and decision-making. Ultimately, this creates a complete value loop on-chain.

AINFT’s vision is already coming to life through a series of innovative projects: SunLumi, a digital avatar built on the SunAgent framework, is reimagining social media with a Web3+AI knowledge system—capable of both intelligent Twitter replies and proactive, accurate crypto trend analysis. Banana King AI, designed for NFT creators, excels at creative empowerment: it can generate concepts, deeply explore project cores, and precisely convey artistic value, enabling complete storytelling for NFT works. The breakthrough SunGenX platform further lowers the barrier for digital asset creation, allowing users to deploy Meme Tokens on-chain in minutes with a single tweet. These initiatives validate AINFT’s core direction: merging blockchain’s “trust foundation” with AI’s “intelligent dynamism.” They steadily advance toward a smarter, fairer, and more autonomous digital future.

The successful operation of these innovations relies on resilient foundational infrastructure. The TRON Blockchain provides robust trust and value circulation for the entire ecosystem. In this secure environment, agents’ actions are traceable, contributions measurable, and value distributable. The deep integration of AI productivity and blockchain trust not only enables genuine synergy, but also propels the ecosystem toward greater autonomy and intelligence.

To achieve this synergy, AINFT has built a comprehensive four-layer tech architecture: The infrastructure layer combines TRON Blockchain, distributed computing, and distributed storage, providing reliable trust and computational resources—the ecosystem’s bedrock. The core component layer acts as the “central nervous system,” delivering operating system-level support via a multi-agent system framework and supplying key intelligent modules and economic engines for AI-driven DApps. The intelligent service layer transforms AI capabilities into ready-to-use services for applications. The ecosystem interaction layer serves as the open gateway, enabling integration with the broader agent ecosystem.

Four core products drive the entire ecosystem, fitting together like strategic pieces to form a complete business loop from development to deployment, empowerment to circulation:

AINFT Agent Framework (Multi-Agent System Framework): Provides developers with a full toolkit for multi-agent system development, featuring a layered architecture for stability and scalability.

AINFT Nova Platform (AI Agent Deployment Platform): Lowers the barrier to AI Agent creation with a visual interface, allowing users to deploy agents and issue dedicated tokens, realizing the “one agent, one economy” innovation.

Smart contracts ensure transparency and security.

AINFT Grid (Decentralized AI Model Platform): Building a decentralized marketplace for AI models, it leverages distributed computing and blockchain to break centralization, pool global resources, and maximize efficiency while reducing costs.

This complete product suite and phased roadmap work in concert, mapping a strategic path from specialized empowerment tools to open agent platforms and, ultimately, a self-sustaining tech-economic ecosystem. These four products serve as both practical vehicles for the vision and the backbone of a self-sustaining tech-economic ecosystem.

On the market expansion front, AINFT has recently achieved major breakthroughs. In September, the AINFT governance token NFT was listed on Binance Alpha, providing valuable exposure for ecosystem projects. More importantly, Binance Wallet integration enables users worldwide to access all AINFT products through a familiar wallet interface, removing traditional DApp barriers. Dual support from Binance unlocks powerful synergy, greatly expanding NFT token applications and liquidity, and driving ecosystem growth.

From APENFT to AINFT, this evolving blueprint marks the start of a new era where human creativity and machine intelligence collaborate—AI expands cognitive frontiers and optimizes efficiency, blockchain ensures trust and fair distribution, and humans are freed from repetitive tasks to focus on higher-value creation and decision-making. AINFT proactively shapes a more open, equitable, and intelligent digital future, following the natural trajectory of technological advancement.

As AINFT continues to develop, an AI-driven, community-governed, interconnected intelligent ecosystem is steadily unfolding. Its reach is expanding, and its possibilities are growing. This is not the end of technological evolution, but the beginning of a new era of collaborative relationship between human creativity and machine intelligence.

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